Text and Structural Data Mining of Influenza Mentions in Web and Social Media

Courtney D Corley; Diane J Cook; Armin R Mikler; Karan P Singh

doi:10.3390/ijerph7020596

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Text and Structural Data Mining of Influenza Mentions in Web and Social Media

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Text and Structural Data Mining of Influenza Mentions in Web and Social Media

Courtney D Corley, Diane J Cook, Armin R Mikler and Karan P Singh

International journal of environmental research and public health, Vol.7(2), pp.596-615

02/2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7020596

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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/105038

PMCID: PMC2872292

PMID: 20616993

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Abstract

graph-based data mining

public health epidemiology

web and social media

health informatics

disease surveillance

social network analysis

Text and structural data mining of web and social media (WSM) provides a novel disease surveillance resource and can identify online communities for targeted public health communications (PHC) to assure wide dissemination of pertinent information. WSM that mention influenza are harvested over a 24-week period, 5 October 2008 to 21 March 2009. Link analysis reveals communities for targeted PHC. Text mining is shown to identify trends in flu posts that correlate to real-world influenza-like illness patient report data. We also bring to bear a graph-based data mining technique to detect anomalies among flu blogs connected by publisher type, links, and user-tags.

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Title: Text and Structural Data Mining of Influenza Mentions in Web and Social Media
Creators: Courtney D Corley - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Blvd., Richland, WA 99352, USA
Diane J Cook - School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, PO Box 642752 Pullman, Washington 99164, USA; E-Mail
Armin R Mikler - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #311366 Denton, TX 76203, USA; E-Mail
Karan P Singh - Department of Biostatistics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd. Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA; E-Mail
Publication Details: International journal of environmental research and public health, Vol.7(2), pp.596-615
Academic Unit: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, School of
Publisher: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
Identifiers: 99900547080601842
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article